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Jack sat up cautiously, not caring to attract unfriendly interest from the dogs. "Ah want yo' to take off all yo' clothes 'cept yo' undahclothes, an' den Ah'll let down a string fo' yo' to tie 'em to," declared the mulatto, grinning.
"That's a good way from the path." "Ah'll be there, me!" cried Pete, in indignant alarm. "No, seh! M'sieu' Edwards say dat? Respectable mans lak M'sieu' Edwards! It was shame for lie so. No, seh! Ah go home t'rough de horchard. Mebbe Ah'll go leetly ways off de path of it, mebbe for peek up apple off'n de groun' what no one ain't want for rot of it, Ah'll don't remembler.
"Wall, Ah reckons as if you'd pay me fer the bear an' an' settle fer the damages, Ah might " "Settle nothing!" roared Hippy in a tone calculated to frighten the visitor, but which failed to have that effect. "Why, I could have you arrested for trying to accept a bribe from a former United States officer. You will get no bribe from me." "Ah'll arrest the whole pack of ye. Officer, eh?
Indeed, such was the dearth of original names that it is on record that old Ian McAllister, the first schoolmaster in the McDonald settlement, was often compelled as he flung his tawse across the room at some focussed point of mischief behind the stove, to pause even at the boiling-point of his wrath, to deliver himself of some such explanation of the case as: "Fiddlin' Archie's Archie, an' Squintin' Archie's Duncan, an' you, Black Sandy More, come up here or Ah'll smash every curse o' a McDonald in the school!"
"But Sarah Emily will make Peter a fine wife, Auntie Jinit," exclaimed Elizabeth loyally. "Aunt Margaret has spared no pains to make her clean and tidy and saving " "Hoots havers! Ah ken yon. But there's nae cleanin' nor scrubbin' nor washin' that'll scour the Eerish oot o' a body, lass, mind ye that. But niver mind her. Ye see, when Wully an' Betsey gets auld ah'll be left on their hands.
"I've got this shirt so full of mud I don't think I ever will get it clean," he said. "Move ye ole hide away, Andy. Ah'll wash it. You ain't no good for nothin'." "Hell no, I'll do it." "Move ye hide out of there." "Thanks awfully." Andrews got to his feet and wiped the mud off his nose with his bare forearm. "Ah'm goin' to shoot that bastard," said Chrisfield, scrubbing at the shirt.
"Ah s'pose yur Maw woulden mind much ef she lent it to me fer to-night eh?" hinted Sary. "I don't suppose mother will ever think of it again, as it is last year's style, anyway. I'll take the risk of giving it to you, Sary, if you promise never to let Bob know where it went." "Oh, Ah shore will promise, Miss Nolla! And Ah kin tell you-all Ah'll be the happiest gal in the West, to-night!"
Brewster kindly, taking the twisted black strings to undo the knot that was tightly tied under a heavy double chin. "Ah declar t' goodness, Miss Brewster, ef you-all hain't too good! Ah'll jest set t' git my second wind, an' then Ah'll tek right hol' of things!" gasped Sary. "Don't hurry yourself. Just cool off and then you'll feel better after such a long ride.
Brewster, shaking her head rebukingly at the small boy who stood on the rockers of his mother's chair, and gripped hold of the back, and so was roughly swayed back and forth with the rocking. "See har, yuh Jim Henderson Halsey git down from thar! Ef Ah ketch yuh, Ah'll skin yer face fer the hop that Ah will!" threatened the mother, trying to reach her young hopeful.
"Perhaps Ah maght get the lessons for nothing from him. Well, Ah believe in my soul Ah'll trah. Now ho' did you begin? and ho' do you expect to get anything oat of it?"
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